Employer Settles Suit Over Cutting Vacation Time For Workers Taking FMLA Leave

Mealey's (July 31, 2018, 1:16 PM EDT) -- FORT WAYNE, Ind. — An Indiana federal judge on July 27 signed off on a class settlement reached in a lawsuit accusing an employer of reducing workers’ paid time off (PTO) when they took leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which will provide class members with 1.5 or 1.75 times their hourly rate of pay for the number of hours they lost (Gretchen B. Carrel, et al. v. MedPro Group, Inc., No. 16-130, N.D. Ind., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 126474)....